"Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever."
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"I don't think I'm ever afraid, but I doubt myself often. Because of that doubt, I constantly strive to make myself better."
"Strive to be in good spiritual and bodily health. Because how are you going to do all that marching if you are not in good health?"
"You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right."
"As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn."
"Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do."
"I strive to be professional and to push myself always to do a better job."
"Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else."
"There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it."
"Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep."
"I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne."
"What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal."
"Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it."
"It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality."
"A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope."
"God's word is : He who strives never perishes."
"A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal."
"The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved."
"All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence."
"All composite things decay. Strive diligently."